Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
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.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Wisdom begins at the end.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
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.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.