The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

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

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

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.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.