One should never do that to another which one regards as injurious to one's own self.

No one belongs to me; I belong to no one. There is no "I" or "mine"; all is blissful aloneless.

Fate and free will are equally powerful forces but I consider free will to be more important as it is your free will that determines your fate.

Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.

Time is the seed of the Universe.

This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.

It is Nature that causes all movement. Deluded by the ego, the fool harbors the perception that says "I did it".

Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.

Pleasure from the senses seems like nectar at first, but it is bitter as poison in the end.

I had no intention of forsaking my wedding vows. I had strong morals and never could have imagined going against them. I was never even tempted to stray.

Money can't buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy.

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, 'I'm just passing through.'

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.