Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
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.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.