The real student is studying, learning, inquiring, exploring, not just until he is twenty or twenty-five, but throughout life.

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.

There's no point in really making something if it doesn't appeal to a lot of people or the masses or if it's not seen by a lot of people.

Rights are not self-evident. They're not unalienable. They are subject to modification just like anything else.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it's also about the ability to do systems thinking.

I am an American aquarium drinker.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Seriously, who has monogrammed pajamas?

Telling the truth after proper investigation is the height of courage.