Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself. Evil-doers again resemble a man who stirs the dust against the wind; the dust is never raised without doing him injury. Thus, the wise will never be hurt, but the curse is sure to destroy the evil-doers themselves.

The mind precedes all things, the mind dominates all things, the mind creates all things.

Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.

The seeker is that which is being sought.

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.