The cure for pain is in the pain.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
Be curious, not judgmental.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Criticize the act, not the person.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.
Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Appearances often are deceiving.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.