He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
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.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
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.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Be curious, not judgmental.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.