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

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

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

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

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.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.