Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

A precedent embalms a principle.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

I think, therefore I am.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

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.

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

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.