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

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

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

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

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

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

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.