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

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

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

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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.