Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

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

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

What's done can't be undone.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.