It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.