In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

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

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

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

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

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.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

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

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.