You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

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.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

A precedent embalms a principle.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

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

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.