He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Obstacles don't have to stop you.  If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Many people think excitement is happiness....

But when you are excited you are not peaceful.

True happiness is based on peace.

Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.

All the world's a stage.

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

No man was ever wise by chance.