I call that man idle who might be better employed.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

Wisdom is knowing what you don't know.

Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.