As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

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.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

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.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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

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

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.