Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

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

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

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

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

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

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.