I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.

Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Failure is the step towards success.

Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?

The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two.

The church is called by God to become God’s agent of deliverance in every nation

My perfect morning is spent drinking coffee, eating porridge and reading the paper at a local cafe.

If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.