A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.

The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.

When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.

The tree does not die, it waits.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.