After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

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.

He who knows Mars, Venus, Mercury or Jupiter very well will also know very well how very precious our earth is!

For imagining lies within our power whenever we wish . . . but in forming opinons we are not free . . .

Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.

The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people.

The goods of the earth are meant for everyone.

I love my son, but my daughter has calmed me down.

Unfortunately, I think music videos are a dying breed because there is no money in them.