It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
A person who spends more than he earns is a fool
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.