Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

I think, therefore I am.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

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

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.