Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

Smartass Disciple: Master, what are you talking about? None of us understand!Master of Stupidity: Be patient! It is not ended yet. The end justifies the means.

Health and happiness are the two most precious and elusive of human conditions. At their core, they are one and the same. Both are a function of balance.

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write, and there are very few of them.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

If philosophy begins in wonder, pedagogy typically begins in frustration.

Superheroes? In New York? Give me a break!