Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

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

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.

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.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

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

Be curious, not judgmental.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.