And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

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

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

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.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

A precedent embalms a principle.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.