We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

Desire is the very essence of man.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

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

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

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.