Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Barba non facit philosophum

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

My name or yours doesn't matter, we all are mere drops in the ocean of divine consciousness, an extension of Supreme Power'.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldnt do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

I love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with my kids.

Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.

I moved into an all-electric house. I forgot and left the porch light on all day. When I got home the front door wouldn't open.