Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

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

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

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.