Great acts are made up of small deeds.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

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

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.