“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

The years teach much the days never know.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience, When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.

Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.