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

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

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

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

The one you buy will be the only one that doesn't work.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

When you learn, teach, when you get, give.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

A friend to all is a friend to none

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.