Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

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.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

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

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

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

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'.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.