“When you come upon a path that brings benefit and happiness to all, follow this course as the moon journeys through the stars.”

From a withered tree, a flower blooms.

Awake. Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

True love is born from understanding.

Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

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

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment

Attachment leads to suffering.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

Politicians are making deals for their benefit. Now we are going to make the deals for the American people.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further confirm the original doctrines.

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn’t thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I’m just happy with a ball at my feet.

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

As if nothing that does not obviously make for the benefit of man had any right to exist; as if our ways were God’s ways.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.