Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.