Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.
You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
The lie is a condition of life.
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Time wounds all heels.
This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.
The greatest power we have is the power of choice.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.