Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.