Intelligence is a moral category.

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

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

The only real laughter comes from despair.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

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

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

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

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

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

I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

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.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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