I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me.

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.