All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

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

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

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

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

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

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

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.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

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?

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

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

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.