No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.

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

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

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.

When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.