Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

A person who spends more than he earns is a fool

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

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.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.