Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

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

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

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

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

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

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.