Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

After all, the only proper intoxication is conversation.

Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

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

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

There is no education like adversity.

A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

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

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.