If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

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

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

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.

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