If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Resist much. Obey little.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Time wounds all heels.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

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

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

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

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.