“ If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. ”

“ Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. ”

“ Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. ”

“ Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. ”

“ If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? ”

“ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about ”

“ The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. ”

“ The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. ”

“ A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ”

“ Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. ”

“ A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. ”

“ Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ”