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

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.

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.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Appearance rules the world.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

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

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

A problem well-put is half-solved.

What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.