Think globally, act locally.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

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

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

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

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.