Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Desire is the very essence of man.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first