Speak the truth from the heart according to your own experience.
Listen generously. Be committed to each other's success.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The essence of courage is to stake one’s life on a possibility. The essence of faith is to believe the possibility exists.

Imagination is more important
than knowledge.

Music in the soul can be
heard by the universe.

I think I should have no other
mortal wants, if I could always
have plenty of music.

At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.

An ant on the move does
more than a dozing ox.

Education is more than a
means for earning a living or the acquisition of wealth; it is the
training of the soul in the pursuit
of truth and the practice of virtue.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

From caring comes courage.

Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is
nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Ambition is like the sea wake—
the more you drink
the more you thirst.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

The Good Leader, the people praise;
the Bad Leader, the people blame;
but of the Great Leader, the people say, 'We did it ourselves’.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.

Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling that a life?

If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Everybody who works for you matters— and they know in a heartbeat if you care about them.

Don’t worry about
avoiding temptation.
As you grow older,
it will avoid you.

Kindness is the language
which the deaf can hear
and the blind can see.

The real test for what you have
built is if it continues to grow
after you leave.

The only way of finding the limits
of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Not everything that is faced
can be changed, but nothing can
be changed until it is faced.

Om sarwa prani hitangkaram...
(May all that breathes be well...)

'Discipline' comes from
the root of the same word
that yields 'disciple'.
Therefore, discipline is to yield oneself in service for others.

The measure of a man
is what he does with power.

The bigger a person gets
the more real they get—
or else they come crashing down.

Don’t be afraid that your life
will end, be afraid that it
will never begin.

Whatsoever thy hand finds to do,
do it with all thy might.

Time is really the only capitol that any human being has, and the one thing he can’t afford to lose.

Not everything that can
be counted counts,
and not everything that
counts can be counted.

You must be the change that
you wish to see in the world.

When the power of love
over comes the love of power
the world will know peace.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want
to test a man’s character,
give him power.

Strangely, it was comforting
to me when I read that
squirrels forget where they hide
about half their nuts.

Acts of kindness
are among those things
that have no limits.

I cry with one eye and
laugh with the other.

Perfect kindness acts
without thinking kindness.

No one can make you feel
inferior without your consent.

Each of us is bound to the past, even as we are anchored in the present and consider the future.

Live outside yourself.
Do something every day
for other people.

Traditions are group efforts
to keep the unexpected
from happening.

Don’t confuse being in charge of
the aircraft carrier with being
the aircraft carrier.

Charismatic leaders make us think, 'Oh, if only I could do that, be like that.'
True leaders make us think, 'If they can do that, then...I can too.'

Making money is easy.
Having fun and helping others find a sense of purpose
is what matters,
and is much harder.