“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

Darkness is dawn not yet born.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

I do not want you to hear that I love you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.