There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

I think, therefore I am.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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