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.
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
Resist much. Obey little.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.
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.
