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

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Intelligence is a moral category.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Compassion is the basis of morality.