It's better not to see than to see wrongly.

Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.

Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.

All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

Quality... you know what it is, yet you don't know what it is.

The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.

We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

That which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.