Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.