The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

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.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

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

You always admire what you really don't understand.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool