The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Life is different than teacher, A Teacher teaches lesson, then keeps the exam. But the life keeps the exam first, then teaches the lesson,

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges