The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

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

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

A friend to all is a friend to none

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.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

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