In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

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

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

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

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

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

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

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.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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

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

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.