“Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?”

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

It is better to be silent, than to dispute with the Ignorant.

Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

There’s a plaque on our wall that says we’ve sold over 65 million albums, and I don’t feel I’ve accomplished anything. I feel like I’m just getting started.

Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.

He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little.

Conceive the inconceivable – then accomplish it.

I feel very accomplished. It makes me feel great to know that I am impacting lives and of service to the world.