Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.