The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

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.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.