Because knowledge changes so rapidly, knowledge flow is more important than knowledge stock.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice

Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.

One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.

I'm going to be me at the end of the day. And I think my family appreciates that. They're happy for me that I'm finding out who I am, and I'm content with that.

First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe (at all events when viva voce) worse than useless.

There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication.

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.