The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

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.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

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!

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

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

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

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

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

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.