“Be Skeptical, but learn to listen.”

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren’t aware. We ignore the truth or we just don’t see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn’t allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.

Everything you think about yourself, everything you believe about yourself, is because you learned it.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Listen to other people tell their story, but don’t believe them. You know that it’s just a story that is only true for them, but listen because the communication can be wonderful.

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they’re lies, you’re free.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else’s story.

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, “As Long as I Live, so long do I learn”. That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.