A man is literally what he thinks.

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

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

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

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.