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

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

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

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

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

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.