Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

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

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

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

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.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Be curious, not judgmental.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

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

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!