Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
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.
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Desire is the very essence of man.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.
Judge not unless you judge yourself.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
