If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

She burned too bright for this world.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.

The white man’s victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.

Ali always said I would be nothing without him, but who would he have been without me?

I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

Jerkery knows no financial pedigree.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.