If you want relief from pain just strive to touch more of every part of life.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.

If there is true ‘Selfishness, ’ then there is ‘liberation of the Self’, and that indeed is one’s own form (the Self).

You're surrounded by people and voices and noises, but there you are, alone and trembling inside. And you want to be invisible. (thinking) Please, don't notice me.

...I’m not going anywhere. Remember, I promised. I’m yours now, forever.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.

French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly.

Turbos are people who can't build engines.

There's a lot of madness going on out there. Artists can only be what they are, but the industry only goes with what they think people wanna hear.

He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse.