If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

People living deeply have no fear of death.