Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.

Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

Little by little, one travels far

A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.