Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

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.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.