We never see ourselves as others see us.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

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.

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

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

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

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.