“I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.”

Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

The strong must learn to be lonely.

There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.

The majority never has right on its side.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It’s an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it’s a way of being present in the moment.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle.

Devotion is a way of being, it’s not something you do. It’s dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.

Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

The most magical key for success is this simple sentence: I can do it! Repeat this in your mind! I can do it! I can do it! I can do it!

The good will is all – and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.