At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

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

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

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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

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

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

I think, therefore I am.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.