I think, therefore I am.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

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

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

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

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

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

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Criticize the act, not the person.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.