Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

What's done can't be undone.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.