We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

I don't sing because I'm happy;

I'm happy because I sing.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Knowing others is wisdom,
knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

One is loved because one is loved.

No reason is needed for loving.

Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

Where there is love there is life.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.

Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise.

The good leader is he who the people revere.

The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

I do not fix problems.

I fix my thinking.

Then problems fix themselves.

You are not rich until you have a rich heart.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?