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

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

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.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

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

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

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

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.