A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.