Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

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

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

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

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

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

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

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

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.