If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle
Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.
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.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.