“They are so knowing, that they know nothing.”

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Their silence is enough praise.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

The less my hope, the hotter my love.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

Fortune helps the brave.

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

Charity begins at home.

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

She never was really charming till she died.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

For one who knows me, I am one with him; for one who wants to know me, I am very near to him; and for one who does not know me, I am a beggar before him.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

I knew that if I did not start chanting with people, that I would never be able to clean out the dark corners of my own heart. I knew it with every cell in my body and mind.

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn’t a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

Don’t give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.

Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

Do not offend devotees or even non-devotees. Because all those whom we know as devotees today were once not devotees.