No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
