All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

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

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

Resist much. Obey little.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

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

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

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