The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.

Money demands that you sell not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Look deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

Conscience is a man's compass.

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then like archers aiming at a definite mark we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas, in order to appear consistent, drives himself into a false position.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment, you can grow more surely toward the stars.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them, than to have them and not deserve them.

I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

The more things are forbidden the more popular they become.

Does wisdom, perhaps, appear on the earth as a raven, which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on and fear not the thorns or the sharp stones on life's path.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.

The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

Each of us has that right that possibility to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself she will be invented. So to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

The human race has one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

In the sky there is no distinction of east and west, people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

All that spirits desire spirits attain.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

It is a man's own mind not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure.

What you do not wish upon yourself extend not to others.

When in doubt, tell the truth.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

The miracle is not that we do this work but that we are happy to do it.

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Do what you love. Know your own bone, gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it and gnaw it still.

Let us perform heroic deeds by working together,

We travel, some of us forever to seek other states other lives other souls.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

He who experiences the unity of life, sees his own Self in all beings and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

I'm not one of those complicated mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day taking what comes.

If a man's mind becomes pure his surroundings will also become pure.

Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.

Love is a fruit in season at all times and within reach of every hand.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Those who do not complain are never pitied

I always knew I was destined for greatness.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you'll do it without thinking.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

When it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine any more, there's a rainbow in the clouds.

I believe the most important single thing beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

Only the shallow know themselves.

You have to be someone.

Here is a test to find if your mission on Earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Tough times never last but tough people do.

Go before the people with your example and be laborious in their affairs.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count, everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

What is past is prologue.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Wealth and rank are what people desire but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems, and remember no one can get the jump on the future.

Winning is not a sometime thing, it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

The future is plump with promise.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

So then the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

When we see men of a contrary character we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up but to support them after.

Generosity is giving more than you can and pride is taking less than you need.

Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and, at last, you create what you will.

As a child of God I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Born out of concern for all beings.

The eye of a human being is a microscope which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

I could never hate anyone I knew.

Give food to the hungry, water to the thirsty and clothes to the naked. Then God will be pleased.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Education comes from within, you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

May you be born in an important time.

One's own religion is, after all, a matter between oneself and one's Maker, and no one else's.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody, for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

If there is anything that a man can do well I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Saints need sinners.

The stages of the Noble Path are: Right View, Right Thought, Right Speech, Right Behavior, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Your friend is your needs answered.

It's bleak, because I can't - many of us can't - hear her sweet voice, but it's great because she did live and she was ours. I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians Spanish-speaking - she belonged to us and that's a great thing.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

As human beings our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted, and behold, service was joy.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

Adventure is not outside man, it is within.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law, for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place then stand firm.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

If you can't feed a hundred people then feed just one.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults and everyone sees them, they change and everyone looks up to them.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Confront them with annihilation and they will then survive, plunge them into a deadly situation and they will then live. When people fall into danger they are then able to strive for victory.

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent them from making nests in your hair.

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry ,and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value, no matter what their color.

One swallow does not make a spring nor does one fine day.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes, you should not like water and oil repel each other, but should like milk and water mingle together.

I was thinking about that, about the journeys in the film, journey to the roots, journey to the heart. We're all on journeys.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Heaven means to be one with God.

You can write me down in history with hateful twisted lies, you can tread me in this very dirt, but still like dust I'll rise.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

To reach a port we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Adventure is worthwhile.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see it growth but it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see it damage but it does by days.

Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

It is not the answer you look for that makes you strong. It's the ways that you take that define who you are and what you can do.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged.

If you lead the people with correctness who will dare not be correct?

Just as hope rings through laughter it can also shine through tears.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I born in the world, raised in the world, having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

All great achievements require time.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Without recognizing the ordinances of Heaven it is impossible to be a superior man.

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so I think when we commit a fault, however small, each day and do not cure ourselves of it.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation, if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us, in the dreariest and most dreaded moments, can see a possibility of hope.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph.

Karma comes from our hearts. Karma leaves from our hearts.

Advance and never halt for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path for they draw only corrupt blood.

I'm not going anywhere. I came here to say something and I'm not leaving until I'm finished.

It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine... I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

I know it when I don't know it. Sometimes I know it when I don't think I know it. I need to trust myself in these moments, these rare moments of self-doubt.

It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind, it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

Deny the passport, throw it away and make a great decision that you will not leave this shore until and unless you have liberated all the human beings.

Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties and its very atoms.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Man is a universe within himself.

We fail to see that we can control our destiny, make ourselves do whatever is possible, make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley, than to those who inhabit the mountain?

All proofs rest on premises.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

Success is a science, if you have the conditions you get the result.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you, as by the attitude you bring to life, not so much by what happens to you, as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

A man who was completely innocent offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Man can believe the impossible but man can never believe the improbable.

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

God has entrusted me with myself.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Do not worry about holding high position, worry rather about playing your proper role.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Observe all men, thyself most.

He who wished to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I, if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Capital as such is not evil, it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

What are men to rocks and mountains?

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions brave by performing brave actions.

Non-violence requires a double faith faith in God and also faith in man.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

If it's your job to eat a frog it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it.