If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

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.

Lighten up. Brighten up. Smile.

Democracy is the process to elect government of the upper-class people, by the poor people and for the corporate people.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.

You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.

We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking.

Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can’t easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.