The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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.
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
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.
Resist much. Obey little.
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.