You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Appearances often are deceiving.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.