Forget the past.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. 

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. 

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection, we revise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success. 

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Rain can be a boon or a curse depending upon its timing.