No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

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

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

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.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

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.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.