Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

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.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

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.