A small rock holds back a great wave.

A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now… but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera… will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it.

a State which dwarfs its men… will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.

A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything.

A woman’s strength is the irresistible might of weakness.

Abandon hope and fear. Let go of trying to accomplish something or exhibiting anything.

According to a notion of the early Christians, the devil would like to ‘play the part of God’. According to Lao-Tzu’s theory, the nature of the devil consists exactly in the attempt of acting the part of God.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

After awakening, continuity is the function of self dropped away.

Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control the desires and passions of men that, on the contrary, they direct and incite men's thoughts the more toward those very objects, for we always strive toward what is forbidden and desire the things we are not allowed to have. And men of leisure are never deficient in the ingenuity needed to enable them to outwit laws framed to regulate things which cannot be entirely forbidden... He who tries to determine everything by law will foment crime rather than lessen it.

All living beings by nature are one’s parents… How will you find the Guru to accept you when you look down on others?

All of creation God gives to humankind to use. If this privilege is misused, God’s justice permits creation to punish humanity.

All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

All over the sky a sacred voice is calling your name.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.