There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The greatest good we can do for others is not just to share our riches with them, but to reveal theirs.
To create something new, or to keep receiving more of something you have already gotten, get some paper and pens and write a thank you to the universe.
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
Always look at the world in the bright, healthy light of optimism.
If the whole existence is one, and if the existence goes on taking care of trees, of animals, of mountains, of oceans –from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest star -- then it will take care of you too. Why be possessive? The possessiveness shows simply one thing – that you cannot trust existence. You have to arrange separate security for yourself, safety for yourself; you cannot trust existence. Non-possessiveness is basically trust in existence. There is no need to possess, because the whole is already ours.
A friend's eye is a good mirror
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity.
A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
Respect for others means offering criticism only where there is the strength to withstand it.
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
