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

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

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

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.