You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

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

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

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

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.