The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

First to become capable of love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.

How we feel is how we want to be heard.

Mostly the beauty has the dangerous, suspicious, untrusting, and even vanity waves in it, and that indeed, prevail too.

For whom am I waiting? I don't know, at this point in my life there doesn't seem to be anybody that I am really waiting for, hoping for.

Nonviolence is the way to listen to the inner voice.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

I think about all my successes and failures and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

There is no need to increase the taxes. India can run without troubling the citizens.

But it could be that we, as early as spring, will need to embark on a new policy in order to save one of the cornerstones of European politics: personal freedom of movement.

The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive.

I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.

The soul is timeless and nonlocal.