It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

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

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

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

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.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

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.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

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 ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

A precedent embalms a principle.

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.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.