There's more to life than being a passenger.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

A leader's greatness is found in bringing out greatness in others.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

No garden is without its weeds.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

If I had to define life in a word, it would be: Life is creation.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.