When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

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

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

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

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Wisdom begins at the end.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

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

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

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

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.