We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Intelligence is a moral category.

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.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Criticize the act, not the person.

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.

Be curious, not judgmental.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

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.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

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.