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.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

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

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

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.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

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

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.