Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

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.

Resist much. Obey little.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

I think, therefore I am.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

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

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