Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

No one is ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself. The external teacher offers only the suggestion, which arouses the internal teacher, who helps us to understand things.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it is work every moment and rest every moment.

Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies.