Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found

Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same time a tomb, in which, voluntarily, one slowly inters oneself.