Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

A hot lust for glory, gems, gold or mates, Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates.

I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

I don't know nothing about that. I'm not the man upstairs.

I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.

Any colour - so long as it's black.

What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.