"Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom."

"Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing."

"As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight."

"In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him."

"All things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God."

"There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair"

"Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as you see, it has not left me yet. Love brought us to one death."

"I found myself within a forest dark,"

Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.

What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.

The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

“A job is death without dignity.”

"One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: "This too shall pass."

"What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery."

"A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me."

"Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice."

"Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards."

"One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?"

"You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them."

"Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope."

"Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are."

"Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test."

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.