It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

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

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

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

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

The lie is a condition of life.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

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.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.