Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Meditation is spending time with the self. It is the time to be intimated with the soul.

Billions of dreams die off every year. I believe yours will not be part of that proportion if only you are ready to shape them!

I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects.

Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

I don't want people to pigeonhole me.

Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world.

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

Every moment is the manifestation of the whole. Life itself is, therefore, nothing but the continuous moment of the whole, and everybody is living the continuous moment of the whole.