Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

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

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

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

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

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.