We never see ourselves as others see us.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

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

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

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

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.