“It is in a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that leads him to evil ways.”

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, No one can purify another.

Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence.

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

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

The teaching is simple. Do what is right. Be Pure.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.

You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Success isn’t the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

If you find no one to support you on the spiritual path, walk alone.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

It’s not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil – or else an absolute ignorance.

Savage, despicable evil. That’s what we were fighting in Iraq. That’s why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy ‘savages.’ There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.

Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.

Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

There’s too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.

There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.