You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

What one fool can understand, another can.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.