It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

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.

A precedent embalms a principle.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

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.

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

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

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.