“Common aim is stronger than blood.”

If you meditate and the Devil comes, make the Devil meditate.

If you can serve a cup of tea right, you can do anything.

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this “sin” begins. This is something that must be grasped, a “sin” is something which is not necessary.

Never think of results, just do!

The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.

The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.

Personality in man is what is “not his own” . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.

Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.

What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.

The man has the possibilities of getting free gradually from the mechanical laws.

The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.

There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

I love being able to come in every single day and work out and watch film and practice with guys who are all striving for the same goal.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

My grandma told me that to be wealthy you need at least seven streams of income, so that’s my goal. I have a big family. I want to take care of everybody.

The goal of leadership seems simple: to get people to do what they need to do to support the mission and the team.

The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.

Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.

With a lot of attention comes criticism, but I’ll take that. I’m reaching all the goals I’ve set for myself, so you can’t say anything bad about that.

I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.