The soul in man is greater than his fate.

When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture

The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies.

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

Between optimism and pessimism, there is confidence in God.

When we do something we like, we are not only happy. We are also very strong!

Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

The world needs banking but it does not need banks.

She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.

The everyday choices I make regarding money will influence the very coarse of eternity.

If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be loveable, if you would be helped be helpful.