The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife etc., is sure to be noticed.

In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.

[http://www.spiritsite.com/writing/thihan/ SpiritSight.com - Excerpts from selected Thich Nhat Hanh books]

The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

Socrates’ way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.

You can't see it... you can't feel it... and you can't taste it. But it's here, right now, all around us. It's goin' through you like an X-ray. Right into your cells! What do you think killed all these animals!?

Dear sisters and brothers, we realise the importance of light when we see darkness. We realise the importance of our voice when we are silenced.

It's a tragedy that a lot of people know more about Shakespeare than about Cao Xueqin.

How many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see?

This guy was going to marmalise me! I mean, where's the kudos in beating up a seven-stone fucking consumptive? I was a self-confessed coward, then as now. My coat of arms has been detailed elsewhere: four white feathers on a field of yellow. Nothing for me is more terrifying than physical pain....

There was a war going on in Kosovo that no one talked about.

Watch your back, be careful don't be careless.
In this day and age your paranoia is awareness.

[http://sadhguru.org/ Sadhguru.org]

I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

We think that thoughts are there inside of us. We think that they are self-generated and spontaneous. What is actually there is what I call a thought-sphere. The thought-sphere is the totality of man's experiences, thoughts, and feelings passed on to us from generation to generation.

What really made me take a stand was that nobody was doing anything.