Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

A friend to all is a friend to none

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

What's done can't be undone.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

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