Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

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.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.