In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

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

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

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

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

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

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

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

Desire is the very essence of man.

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.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.