When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.