Nothing is as easy as it looks.

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

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

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

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

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

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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

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

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

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.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.