It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
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.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.