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

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.

Life is real only then, when “I am”.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

One of the best means for arousing the wish to work on yourself is to realize that you may die at any moment. But first you must learn how to keep it in mind.

Only super-efforts count.

Believe nothing, not even yourself.

You can never awaken using the same system that put you to sleep in the first place.

To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.

Love without knowledge is demonic.

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all.

To tackle the big and relevant issues of the day with bold and innovative ideas is without question the most rewarding way to serve.

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

We don’t let criminals serve in our office as president.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.