Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

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

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

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

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

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

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

A man is literally what he thinks.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.