“In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.”

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

If you have a wounded heart, touch it as little as you would an injured eye. There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Don’t try to cover your mistakes with false words. Rather, correct your mistakes with examination.

Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.

Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes.

If you’re asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom’s temple.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

I don’t make big grand gestures, generally.

No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.

Feel free to change. When you discover something true about yourself, put it in action regardless of who you were yesterday.

The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought.

You don’t have to act on every thought and feeling you have.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Enthusiasm is the DNA of making things happen.