We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Desire is the very essence of man.
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.