I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

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

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Desire is the very essence of man.

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

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

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.