You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

A friend to all is a friend to none

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

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

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

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

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.