Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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.

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.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

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

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

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.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

All great achievements require time.

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

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

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