The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

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.

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

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.