No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

A friend to all is a friend to none

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.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

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.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

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.