Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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.

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.