I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

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.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

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

Resist much. Obey little.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?