It takes a great man to be a good listener.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

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

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

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.