None but ourselves can free our minds.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

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.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Resist much. Obey little.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

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.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.