Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.

Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.

True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.

Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

You're on your own.

And you know what you know.

And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.