If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Time wounds all heels.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.