Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
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.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
The lie is a condition of life.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Be curious, not judgmental.
