It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

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.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

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

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

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

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