Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
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.
There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.