An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

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

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

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

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

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.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.