Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

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

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

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

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

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

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.