I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

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.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

The way to know life is to love many things.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The less you know, the more you believe.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.