No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

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

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

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

Be curious, not judgmental.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

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

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

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

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

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

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.