Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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

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

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

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

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

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