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.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

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

Resist much. Obey little.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

The lie is a condition of life.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

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

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

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.