A silent man is not a conquered man.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

When one remains silent in the face of oppression, one is on the side of the oppressor.

Man is a social animal.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

After all, the only proper intoxication is conversation.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Most conversations are just alternating monologues. The question is, is there any real listening going on.

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.