Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.