Question your perception.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

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

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

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

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

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 Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.