It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

All great achievements require time.

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

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

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

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

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

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.