Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Intelligence is a moral category.
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
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.