When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?

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.

Imagination is a roller coaster ride in search of ideas and beauty into the wonderland of subconscious and conscious mind.

The important thing was that we were alive...

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

I don't have a problem rhyming "bar" with "car" - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel right.

As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

Bright clasp of her whole hand around my finger My daughter as we walk together now. All my life I'll feel a ring invisibly Circle this bone with shining When she is grown.

I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.