To beprepared is half the victory.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.