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

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

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

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

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

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

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

I think, therefore I am.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.