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

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

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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

Resist much. Obey little.

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.