Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

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

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

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.

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.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.