The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

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

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

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.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Desire is the very essence of man.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

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

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

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

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.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Wisdom begins at the end.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.