Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

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 Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

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.

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

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Nothing is as harmful as expectations.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insists on being equal.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable desire for power and vast possessions. Yet by this vain striving for perfection in a world where everything is relative, they wander even further away from inward peace and happiness of the mind.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.