All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.

The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

Love is bliss only if you are a giver, not otherwise.

Today I choose to be kind to all and to do all I can to make this world peaceful.

LIFE isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to DANCE in the rain.

Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.

Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds, is an elaborate fraud.

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree he had propped them up against, and closed his own eyes.