One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

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.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

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

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

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

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

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