The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.