Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

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

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

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

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

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

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

A man is literally what he thinks.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.