What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

Think globally, act locally.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

What's done can't be undone.

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.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.