You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

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

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

All great achievements require time.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact