A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

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

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

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

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

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

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more