We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow man.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes thee world a better place to live.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in the state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.