Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

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

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

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

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

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

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.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.