Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

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

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

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

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

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

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

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

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.

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.

Intelligence is a moral category.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.