One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

All great achievements require time.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

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

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

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 very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

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

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

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