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

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

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

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

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.

All great achievements require time.

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

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.