A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
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.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
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.
Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
We never see ourselves as others see us.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.