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.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

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

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

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

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

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

A man is literally what he thinks.

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

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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

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

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.