One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

The object of the superior man is truth.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

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

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.