Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Think globally, act locally.
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.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
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.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Appearances often are deceiving.
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
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.