He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

He who is contented is rich.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Thomas Jefferson once said, ‚We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.‘ And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.