The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Moonlight is sculpture.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!

Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.

Brain damage and stupidity are very different things, but can have similar effects on the wearer.

Get in touch with nature. The stillness of nature is profound and yet subtle.

Freedom which has genuine meaning is more than a timeless abstraction, more than an absence of restraints.

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.

I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt.

The visible exhausts me. I am dissolved in shadow.

The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.