There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Humility is attentive patience.

A lie never lives to be old.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

That which costs little is less valued.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.