Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

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.

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.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

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

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.