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

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

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.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

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

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.