The lie is a condition of life.
It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
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.
The object of the superior man is truth.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of 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.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law