You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

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.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

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

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

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

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Time wounds all heels.

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

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.