The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

There is only one all pervading God. It has only one message - Love all, encompass all and transcend the limits of the selfish gene.

The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts.

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic.

Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me.

There is no shame in ignorance, only in denying it. By knowing what we do not know, we can take steps to remedy our lack of knowledge

To have been where you have beenAnd to still have joy,Dazzling in your heart,Now there’s a thing to make the whole world smile.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet,How sweet his music! on my life,There's more of wisdom in it.

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

You can never be happy if you're trapped in the past and fearful of the future. Living in the present is the only way to be happy.

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle ofsoftness overcoming hardness.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped fo

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

Drawing on my past experiences, I used a lot of erasers. My aging wisdom is starting to look a lot like a nude portrait of Alice Neel.