Think globally, act locally.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

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.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

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

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

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

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

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.