No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
We never see ourselves as others see us.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
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.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little
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.
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.