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.

Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Genuine sincerity opens people’s hearts, while manipulation causes them to close.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what youve always gotten.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Knowledge has three degrees ? opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock.