When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

I think, therefore I am.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

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

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

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.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.