Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

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

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

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