I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

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

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

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.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Wisdom begins at the end.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

Appearances often are deceiving.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.