Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

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.

If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.

The best stories have many meanings

Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff...Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread.

In ethics of life, the gender that are much discussed, are favourites.

Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes.

I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy".

When our mind is calm, we’re better able to find peace of mind and live a joyful life.

It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.

On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.

We learn what we need, Not what we'd want to