The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
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.
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
I have no desire to make windows into mens souls
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
