Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

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

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

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

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.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

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

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

A friend to all is a friend to none

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.