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.

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.