To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

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

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.