We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Resist much. Obey little.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

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

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

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.