The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

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.

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.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.