“What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.”

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.

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.

The sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations.

I know that my fans want to know who I’m sleeping with, but it’s really none of their business.

Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can’t be communicated to others.

If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I.

Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man.

You’re walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues…And you know it don’t come easy.

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.