Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive 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.

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.

Chaos is order yet undeciphered.

The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

Empire breeds terrorism.

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

I Was so Drunk, I Thought a Tube of Toothpaste Was Astronaut Food.