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.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Little things affect little minds.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Youth is wasted on the young.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

They know enough who know how to learn.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

There’s room for role models who make mistakes.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

The doer alone learneth.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Don’t ever play yourself.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.