If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

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

None but ourselves can free our minds.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

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

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

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

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

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

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

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

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.