A person's a person, no matter how small.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.