I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

The lie is a condition of life.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Criticize the act, not the person.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

A friend to all is a friend to none

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.