We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes... including you.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Follow your heart,
listen to your inner voice,
stop caring about what others think.

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Nothing happens until something moves.

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpeace.

I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Children take more notice of what their parents do than what they say.