“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Don’t do unto others what you don’t want done unto you.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.

If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children.

When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

We need to abandon our scale and adopt God’s because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.

I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we’ll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we’re all one but continue to try to win.

People can put you down, and they will but Allah will never abandon you, so long as you don’t.

The deity who stalked the deserts of the Middle East millennia ago-and who seems to have abandoned them to bloodshed in his name ever since-is no one to consult on questions of ethics.

Chasing unavailable people is self abandonment.

The only way we’re gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues.

Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.