Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

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

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

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

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

What can't be cured must be endured.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

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

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

Wisdom begins at the end.

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.

Intelligence is a moral category.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

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.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.