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

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

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 takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

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

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.