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"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."
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"The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone."

"If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will look strange! Be like autumn leaves which follow exactly the rhythm of the wind!"

"Don't always deprive yourself trying to please others."

"Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness."

"The absolute value of being neutral is zero."
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"When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it."


"If it were said that without such bones and sinews and all the rest of them I should not be able to do what I think is right, it would be true; but to say that it is because of them that I do what I am doing, and not through choice of what is best - although my actions are controlled by Mind - would be a very lax and inaccurate form of expression."


"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it."


"By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities."


"Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state."
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