Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

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.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

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

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

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.