Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

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.

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

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

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

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.