Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

The only real laughter comes from despair.