Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. 

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

In matters of love, listen to your heart. Brain has no clue to what love is all about!

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.

life loses half its interest if there is no struggle, if there are no risk to be taken.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. 

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success. 

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.