Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

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

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

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

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

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

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.