Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.
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.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.
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.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little
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 more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.
