In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.
Think globally, act locally.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Criticize the act, not the person.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.