The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.

We all were courageous in the starting moments, few of us stayed courageous till the final moments and the world called them successful men.

If one wanted to stigmaitise, that's how one would do it - lots and lots of people saying "we're severing our ties".

We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

Too many people never connect with their true talents and therefore don't know what they are capable of achieving.

Humanity's mission is to find a peace that lies beyond the veil - a peace that is not of this world. The peace that is not of this world is not dependent on human circumstances.

Faith: Pretending to know things you don't know.

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Your life is perfect, it is a perfect plan; it is a spontaneous miracle. It is both every moment.