Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

No one, in the end, made it out of this life alive.

Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to care for what God has made and to treasure God's own treasures.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world.

I just write what I want to read, and sometimes keeping it interesting means adding one more element that ends up adding another year to the work.

You can never really own real estate for instance; if you think you can, just try not paying your property taxes for a few years.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.

The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.