Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

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

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

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.

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

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

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.