Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
It takes a great man to be a good listener.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
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.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
