The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

A friend to all is a friend to none

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

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

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

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

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

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.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

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.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Compassion is the basis of morality.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Time wounds all heels.