You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

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

When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

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.

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

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see 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.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

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.

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

The universe is wider than our views of it.

On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.