Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

The whole universe is contained within a single human being—you.

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

It is an ecological, theological, and biological reality: The more we are in tune with eternal nature, the more we will be able to hear the still small voice within and have explosions of inspirational insight.

A problem well-put is half-solved.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.