What's done can't be undone.
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to 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.