Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

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

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

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

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

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

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

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

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

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.