The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.