A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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

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.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

Intelligence is a moral category.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

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

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

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

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