The only real laughter comes from despair.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

All great achievements require time.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

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

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.