Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

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