Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Where you stand depends on where you sit.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
I have no desire to make windows into mens souls
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world - the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
