Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.