Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

He who is everywhere is nowhere.

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.