All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

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

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.