Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

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

None but ourselves can free our minds.

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

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.