Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

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

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

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

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

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

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

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