Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

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

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.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.