Give thy thoughts no tongue.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

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.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Tell the audience what you’re going to say, say it; then tell them what you’ve said.

Knowledge is power.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say ‚recognize‘ because you’re not… it’s not new.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people’s memories for a while.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.