It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

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

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

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

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

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.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

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

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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.