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.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

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

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

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

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