Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

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

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

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

Be curious, not judgmental.

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

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

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.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

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

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?