Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

The only real laughter comes from despair.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

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

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

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

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

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

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