Criticize the act, not the person.

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.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

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

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

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

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.