Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

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

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

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

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.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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.

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

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.