Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

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

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

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.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

The object of the superior man is truth.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.