Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you,...

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

When you work you fulfil a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life...

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

Perhaps Time’s Definition of Coal is the Diamond.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from...

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.