Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

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

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

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Criticize the act, not the person.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

A friend to all is a friend to none

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.