The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

What's done can't be undone.

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.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

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

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