Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

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

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

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

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.