Tenderness is the rest of passion.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.

Enlightenment is something that you've been resisting to happen. It’s not something you have to struggle to make happen. The key is not to get in the way! Just allow it occur.

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.

When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.

I know for a fact that I am not as fulfilled, happy or passionate about life if I have not spent time helping others.