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

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

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

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

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

“Peace comes from within.”

“If you wish to be a writer, write.”

“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.’”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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