Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.

The truth is a lot easier to see when you stop assuming you already have it.

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.

Never be a victim of life; be its conqueror.

For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don't need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.

Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.

Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.

The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.

A man of logic is a man of sin.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

Do you wish to see clearly and be free?

We expect to see the day when temples will dot the earth, each one a house of the Lord.

When I was young they used to call me 'The Foreman,' not because I was in charge but because I did the work of four men.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

Do what is right because it is right; and leave it alone.

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

Each second of life is a miracle

A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary. Existential blindness, of sorts.