The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Be curious, not judgmental.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.