All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

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.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

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

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

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

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

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

Don't take tomorrow to bed with 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.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.