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.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

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.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.