All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.