Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

This is my simple religion.

No need for temples.

No need for complicated philosophy.

Your own mind, your own heart is the temple.

Your philosophy is simple kindness.

One day you will wake up and there won't be an more time to do the things you've always wanted.

Do it now.

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

If you can change your mind,
you can change your life.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

He who seeks to be rich will not be benevolent.

He who wishes to be benevolent wil not be rich.

In their nature all people are equal, it is their habits that make the differences.

Being still does not mean don't move.

It means move in peace.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

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