Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
You can never get enough of what you don't really need to make you happy.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
When he was asked ‘What is a friend?' he said ‘One soul inhabiting two bodies.'
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility…The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away.
Everyone who enjoys thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed. -- Herein lies the difference between them that create and them that enjoy.
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.