You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Criticize the act, not the person.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
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.
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.
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.