If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Intelligence is a moral category.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

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.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Resist much. Obey little.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.