Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is your god-self; It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being. Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.