So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

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

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

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.