Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.
What we do now echoes in eternity.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.
It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.
A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.
Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
If the big rocks don’t go in first, they aren’t going to fit in later.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Opportunities come to pass, not to pause.
Happiness equals reality minus expectations.