Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
Through discipline comes freedom.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.
It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.
The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him – that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.
Three rules for a career: Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself. Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire. Work only with people you enjoy.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.