We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.

You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.