The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just be beautiful, and life will defend you.

Seek for illumination of self, and then the world, through the simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.