To bear and not to own; to act and not lay claim; to do the work and let it go: for just letting it go is what makes it stay.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.
You are the world and the world is you.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
The way you live your days is the way you live your life.
The axe always forgets. The tree always remembers.
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.
You can’t be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live.
Prevention is better than cure.
Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.
Less is more.
No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance.
The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.
Legacy is greater than currency.
Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.