He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of mankind, Virtue will never desert him. He returns to the state of a little child.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

The key to our scientific future, ....is hidden in our past

Life is truly too short to not be HAPPY and GRATEFUL today.

Teaching Ramanujan was like writing on a blackboard covered with excerpts from a more interesting lecture.

Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.

I have always been a dark writer.

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.