The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

In order to eliminate the negative influences, simply ignore them.

Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

If you have to fight and want to win, use the strongest muscles: Heart.

What treaty is it that finally separates those two territories, the hard resolve of our exteriors and the terrible disaster on our insides?

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

All forms of yoga involve occult assumptions, even hatha yoga, which is often presented as a merely physical discipline.

Doubt, not self-reflection, comes from a destructive energy, and when it rears its head, I talk to it like a lunatic.

Carry always your earplugs with you in case of emergency, like meeting with a politician!

What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.