Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

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

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

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

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

The lie is a condition of life.

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

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

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.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.