Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Breath of the winds; dancing flame; peace of the earth; song of the waves.

If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous.

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open

There's no success without failure and no winning without losing.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.