“Keep a green tree alive in your heart, and a songbird may come to sing there.”

“Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”

“Teachers open doors, but you must enter by yourself.”

“If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves.”

“He who is afraid of suffering, is already suffering fear. Out of fear, true creativity is blocked.”

“You have two lives the second one begins when you realize you only have one”

“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...”