The small wisdom is like water in a glass:clear, transparent, pure.The great wisdom is like the water in the sea:dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

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.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

If you destroy the foundations of anything, the structure will collapse. If you want to destroy any building, you are guaranteed early success if you destroy the foundations.

It's an old and honored tradition for war heroes to be promoted to important offices, whether or not they're suited to it

¡Hundieron el Maine!” said Manuel to his wife Etervina, as he read the newspaper on February 16, 1898. “They sank the Maine!

I am firmly convinced that the ideal combination leading to a happy life is to have the time to both fish and read.

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.

I think that live music is something that the Internet can never kill.

I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?