If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

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

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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.

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

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

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

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

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.

Be curious, not judgmental.

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

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

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