Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

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.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Time wounds all heels.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

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

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

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

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

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

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.