Things are not always what they seem.

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

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.

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

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

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.

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

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

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

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

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

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

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.

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.