The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.
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.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
All great achievements require time.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
Criticize the act, not the person.