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.
Let him who would move the world first move himself.
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
