You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

What can't be cured must be endured.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

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

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.