You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

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.

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

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

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

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

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

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.