The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little
Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
What can't be cured must be endured.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
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.
Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Nothing is as easy as it looks.