Archived Quotes

Every spirit makes its house,

and we can give a shrewd guess,

from the house to the inhabitant.

If the doors of perception were cleansed,

everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles,

but most of them never happened.

The more you seek the uncomfortable,

the more you will grow.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and

they sent a piece of my finger to my father.

He said he wanted more proof.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

I don't believe in failure.

It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Friendship needs no words

it is solitude delivered

from the anguish

of loneliness.

There is more difference in the quality

of our pleasures than in the amount.

Pursue what is meaningful,

not what is expedient.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

A chief event of life is the day in which

we have encountered a mind that startled us.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow storm.

We wake from one dream into another dream.

Music is how I survive the world.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character,

caliber,

and future of an individual.

If the people remember me as a good teacher,

that will be the biggest honour for me.

That all men are equal is a proposition which,

at ordinary times,

no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Remember that when you leave this earth,

you can take with you nothing that you have received

only what you have given.

I hope I can be as good

of a father to my son

as my dad was to me.