It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

I think, therefore I am.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

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

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Resist much. Obey little.

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.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

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