If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

The gentleman understands rightousness, the petty man understands interest.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.

In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Any place I hang my head is home.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.