And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

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

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

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

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

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.