Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

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

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

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

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

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

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

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.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.