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

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

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.

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

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Be curious, not judgmental.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

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

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Appearances often are deceiving.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.