If the map doesn't agree with the ground, the map is wrong.

Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.

Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.

We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses.

Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

Fear builds walls to bar the light.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence.

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends.

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.

Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.