Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
The object of the superior man is truth.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
Criticize the act, not the person.
All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.