Knowing your own darkness is the best method of dealing with the darkness of other people.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.