Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Man is not sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.