Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.

One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.

The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.

There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.

There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

In the game of Frisbee you throw the disk to someone else. The point of Frisbee is perfect communication. The person at the other end of the field is receiving an impression, a vibration from you.

I was never really attached to a clique, and I wanted to be in all the different groups; I was never a one-group kind of person. I think that's still part of my personality today.

He smiles then, and even though it is well past midnight, its as if the sun has just come out.

If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.