Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.