Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)

Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word ‘God.’ (125)

The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

The best religion or practice is the one that makes us better. (42)

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

[C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50)

The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65)

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all? (73)

Passion helps to prove your inner worth.

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

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I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds not stones are the true monuments of the great.

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.

There are books that a writer undertakes because she wants to go on a journey, and there are journeys a writer undertakes because she wants to write a book.

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.