In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

A friend to all is a friend to none

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

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

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

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.