In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

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

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

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

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

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.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.