The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

A precedent embalms a principle.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.