Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

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

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Time wounds all heels.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

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

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

What's done can't be undone.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.