Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

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.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

None but ourselves can free our minds.