Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.
It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

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.

A ship is always safe at the shore,
but that is NOT what it is built for.

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

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

A debate is usually a heated conversation with two people talking to each other and listening to themselves.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future.

To see what is right, and not do it is the worst cowardice.

In everyone's life, at some time,our inner fire goes out.It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; is what the small man seeks in others.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.