Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
A person who spends more than he earns is a fool
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
