You may either win your peace or buy it; win it by resistance to evil, buy it by compromise with evil.

You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a good job, but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid?

You may blame Aphrodite soft as she is, she has almost killed me with love for that boy

You may be obliged to wage war but not to use poisoned arrows.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

You know of the how, but I know of the how-less.

You keep going. That is the bodhisattva’s way. As long as it benefits even one being you have to, without any sense of discouragement, go on.

You insist on the example [of the death penalty]. Why? For what it teaches. What do you want to teach with your example? That thou shalt not kill. And how do you teach thou shalt not kill? By killing.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

You have to recover from the hangover of the previous medicine you were taking.

You have to make order, you have to make distinctions, but you also have to know when to stop before you’ve lost the whole in the multiplicity of parts.

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. If you accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

You have to grow from the inside out. No one can teach you, no one can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.

You have the right to work, but for the work's sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work. Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you’… in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

You have entered into my heart and limbs.

You have always been one with the Buddha, so do not pretend you can attain to this oneness by various practices.

You had to live — did live, from habit that became instinct — in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.