This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

False leaders rarely engage succession planning for fear of no longer being seen as the leader.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Follow your desire as long as you live and do not perform more than ordered; do not lessen the time following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.

No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.