A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, ‘What else could this mean?

Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.

In Hollywood, if you don’t have a shrink, people think you’re crazy.

People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.” I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.

Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand.

In my early professional years, I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

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

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.