Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.

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.

but as long as he keeps the bad people rich and the good people scared no one will touch him

But he was sixty-two when I was, born, and the novelty of daughters had worn away long before.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.

I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I particularly ashamed of it.

Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.