How often is silence the wisest of answers. Let your tongue rest more than your hands.

The more you boast, the more shame you bring upon yourself.

Never listen to people who speak badly of others and good of you.

The greater your desire to speak, the greater the danger that you’ll say something stupid.

True religion needs no churches. Church religion is slavery.

Only love can free your soul from the prison of your body.

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the human heart that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

Most evil isn’t committed because people are evil, but because they believe in other people’s false ideas and accept them as faith.

Suffering is an essential condition for both physical and spiritual improvement.

If you wish to improve your life, you must be prepared to sacrifice it.

Using violence to force people to do what you think is good is the best way to instill in them revulsion for what you think is good.

Getting used to a life of idleness is worse than all life’s disasters.

In order to learn how to speak the truth to others you have to learn to speak the truth to yourself.

Just recognize that you’re not the master but a servant and your searching, anxiety, and dissatisfaction will instantly transform into certainty, tranquility, peace and indestructible joy.

There’s no kind of external organization of the world, no sort of external laws and regulations that can change the life of the world; only the inner effort of each individual can.

I cannot close my eyes to the fact that, by eating meat, I demand the murder of living beings to satisfy my luxurious lifestyle and my taste.

Only love can free your soul from the prison of your body.

In order to live a good life you have to place truth above everything else, so that you don’t fear speaking the truth even if the truth harms you as you speak.

It’s easier to enlighten the world’s stupidest person than to enlighten a proud person.

You can easily feel God within yourself. You can never know God’s nature, nor do you need to.