When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

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

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Be curious, not judgmental.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.