Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Live to the point of tears.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

All of us are products of our childhood.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Any place I hang my head is home.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...