There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

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.

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

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.