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

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

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

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

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

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

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

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

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

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

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?