Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.