At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

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

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

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

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

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

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

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.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.