He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

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

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

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

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

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.