Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
We never see ourselves as others see us.
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
