Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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.