Friendship warrants giving up the ego, submitting you to the other person, and remaining non-judgemental in the whole process.

One gets wise by meeting people and meeting people through their literature.

When two warring people face each other, the war of words jumps beyond the subject. The subject remains no more central to the arguments.

Men and women…they are interested in each others bodies first. Other things come later.

Women are women…How can they ignore their bodies, their looks, and above all, their dresses!

Men and women...sill live together for centuries without agreeing on anything.

You can’t ignore our body. It’s the body that houses your healthy mind and a pious soul.

Fulfil the needs of the soul, which travels beyond the death and which will survive the extinction of the world.

Spiritual learners too slowly graduate like students of normal education. If you are mentally elevated, you can grasp and appreciate complex teachings.

Even love becomes pain if destiny has some other designs.

Stop blaming others for the pains and sufferings you have. They are because of you, your karma, and your own disposition.

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

Great leadership makes ordinary people into extraordinary people.

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

I like to be who I am.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

We do have freedom of speech, but if you say the wrong word, it looks like it makes headlines. So everybody has to be very careful.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?

No decision is, in itself, a decision.