Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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 noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
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.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
