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.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

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.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

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

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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

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

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.