A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.

Like I say, boxing was on the floor, but it got back up.

Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.

I wish the rent Was heaven sent.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.

Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.