If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

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.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.