If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

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.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

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

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.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

All great achievements require time.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

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

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.