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.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

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?

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.