In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

A precedent embalms a principle.

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

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

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

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

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.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

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

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.