A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.
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.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks in your pasture. Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else from you. And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. See first that youyourself deserve to be a giver , and an insturument of giving. For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you , who deem yourself a giver , is but a witness.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.
I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
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