Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Think globally, act locally.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.