“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today.”

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”

“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”

“If you wish to be a writer, write.”

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

“The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.”

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.”

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”

“Peace comes from within.”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues; those who go forward but very slowly can get further, if they always follow the right road, than those who are in too much of a hurry and stray off it.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

“Common sense is not so common.”

“What you seek is seeking you.”

“Common sense is the genius of humanity.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”

“The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.”

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

“Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.”

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use”

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”

“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.”

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’”

“Reason is powerless in the expression of love.”

“An unexamined life is not worth living.”

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”

“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.”

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

“The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

“There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.”

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

“Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.”

“Wisdom begins in wonder.”

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”