In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

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

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Criticize the act, not the person.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

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