The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
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.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
Time wounds all heels.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.