We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

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

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

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

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

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

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.