Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

No strength within, no respect without.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.