We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

A rainbow is not afraid of showing its true colors because it knows it is beautiful inside out.

The most important relationship in your life should be your relationship with yourself.

One who cannot swim must not blame the water.

People only stone a tree that is full of ripe fruit.

One who throws stones at others has less to use to build his own house.

I taught my boys it is easy to follow a crowd. Anybody can do that. It takes a man to stand up for your principles. You cut your own path in life. Chase after whatever your heart's desire is, and instead of following the crowd, let somebody else follow you. That takes a little guts.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life.