You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

To beprepared is half the victory.

Onlywhen all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.