“You become what you think about all day long.”

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

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.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream to find out why they’re falling in.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.

Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine that they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.