The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Think globally, act locally.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Resist much. Obey little.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.