Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.

We [tend to] have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We [often feel that we] cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its root in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone; we are not alone when we imitate.

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.

You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

Either you understand or you don't, and that is that.