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.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Wisdom begins at the end.

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.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Desire is the very essence of man.

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