Time is a wealth of change but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

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.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?

I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.

A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.

France cannot be France without greatness.

It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design.

If you haven't doubted, you probably haven't thought very hard about what you believe.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

Consciousness is the glory of creation.

Forgiveness does not replace justice.

I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win.