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

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Intelligence is a moral category.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

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

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

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

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.