Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
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.
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.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
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.
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
