All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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

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

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.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

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.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

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

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

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.