Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

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.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

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.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.