Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Know or listen to those who know.

To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

Success is like a seed: the more you plant, the more you receive.

Could a vow be not all the way broken? Could a sin be not all the way committed?

Tantra is for someone who practices all the paths because all the paths encompass tantra.

Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.

No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it.

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'