Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Time wounds all heels.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

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.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

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

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.