Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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 one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

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.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

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

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.