Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

If there isn't a struggle, there's no stretch, and therefore no growth. Easy doesn’t change you and comfort won’t challenge you. Coasting isn't a strategy.

If you take steps based on fantasies and illusions, you shall meet realities and remember the had I knows in sorrow

Very early in life, I fell in love with the landscape of the human face, where all the emotional states of life are to be found.

More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

I like to hit it downhill, thats the way I was taught to run.

When in doubt, leave it out.

In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]

What I don't like are arrogant people. We're all equal. I don't like it when a person assumes to be better.

The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything