Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

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

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

What's done can't be undone.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

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.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

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

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.