Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

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

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

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see 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.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.