Give a bowl of rice to a man
and you will feed him for a day.
Teach him how to grow his own rice
and you will save his life.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

No matter what your history has been,
your destiny is what you create today.
What are you going to create?

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

People do not lack strength, they lack will.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Open your mind before your mouth.

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.