If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

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

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

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

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

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

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

Resist much. Obey little.

I think, therefore I am.

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

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