An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

Be a mirror of life. Let everyone see their own astonishing beauty in your mirror.

If you don’t have a teacher, don’t worry. Learn by observing the best teacher which is nature.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

A championship team wins because it already has established players, while a talented team is just beginning to establish players.

The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

My most treasured clothing item is first suit that I made - acid green. It was disgusting, but I love it. It's been mended a million times, but I still wear it.

Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.

Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.