The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
A person who spends more than he earns is a fool
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first
The object of the superior man is truth.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.
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.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
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.
