What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

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

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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

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.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

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

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.