“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoi...”

“Marry, and you will regret it; dont marry, you will also regret it; marry or dont marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the worlds foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will r...”

“A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.”

“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”