The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

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

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

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

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Desire is the very essence of man.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

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.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

What's done can't be undone.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.