Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

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

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

What's done can't be undone.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Think globally, act locally.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.