When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

All evil is good become cancerous.

I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.

Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

I wouldn't mind being a lord.

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing.