Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.

Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

Oh yeah, I'm mentally screwed up for life. But I look good.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.

Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.