The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Wisdom begins at the end.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
You don't become what you want, you become what you believe
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.