Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

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

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

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.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

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.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

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