Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

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

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

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

Criticize the act, not the person.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.

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

Wisdom... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Wisdom begins at the end.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

Think globally, act locally.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

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

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.