Is it ever proper to help another man? No, if he demands it as his right or as a duty that you owe him. Yes, if it’s your own free choice based on your judgment of the value of that person and his struggle.

A lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual.

Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room, every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. … Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them and the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change. If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much. The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed.

“A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.”