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.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

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

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

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

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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