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

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

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

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

If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

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.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Intelligence is a moral category.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.