Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.