Intelligence is a moral category.

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

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

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

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

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

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.