Who asks a king for a penny?

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.