Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.
Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Time wounds all heels.
Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.