As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Criticize the act, not the person.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.