The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.