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

Criticize the act, not the person.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

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

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

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

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.