As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

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.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

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

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

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

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

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

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.