Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

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.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

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

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

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

A man is literally what he thinks.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Resist much. Obey little.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

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

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

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

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

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

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.