What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

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

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

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

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

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.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Think globally, act locally.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.