Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
