There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, 'Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.'

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

True meditation is about being fully present with everything that is–including discomfort and challenges. It is not an escape from life.