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

Compassion is the basis of morality.

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

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

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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

Think globally, act locally.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

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

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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