Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

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.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

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.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.