All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

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

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

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

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.