Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

All great achievements require time.

What can't be cured must be endured.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

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.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

You always admire what you really don't understand.