A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

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

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

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

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

Appearances often are deceiving.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

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

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.