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.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

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

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

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

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

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

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

You always admire what you really don't understand.