The negligence of a few could easily send a ship to the bottom, but if it has the wholehearted cooperation of all on board it can be safely brought to part.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. 

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. 

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Nature does nothing in vain.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize your age.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.