“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.

His life oscillates, as everyone’s does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.

Gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.

Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.

I studied every thing but never topped. But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees

To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back on the crowd.

A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.