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.

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

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

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

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.