The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.