After all you grow by experience. But while your son is young, you should try to set before him his ultimate goal.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.

While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.

Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.