Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Criticize the act, not the person.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

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.

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

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

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