it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

The habit of looking into the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit.

If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved.

I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.

I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.

Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon.

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