“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self. 

Let your teacher be love itself.

There is nothing I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves.

How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.

I subject myself to self-purification and to endless self-analysis; I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest.

Success comes from curiosity, concentration, perseverance and self-criticism.

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. 

(On if his life was a success): Neither on my deathbed nor before will I ask myself such a question. Nature is not an engineer or a contractor, and I myself am a part of Nature.

It is important to remember yourself.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.