In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

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

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

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

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

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

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

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

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.