Let us be grateful 

to people who make us happy, 

they are the charming gardeners 

who make our souls blossom.

The person who reads too much 

and uses his brain too little 

will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

Man is what he believes.

Animals are such agreeable friends — 

they ask no questions; 

they pass no criticisms.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, 

and the deep power of joy, 

we see into the life of things.

If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative 

with a different point of view than you have, 

and a very different intellectual background, 

great things can happen.

Somewhere, 

something incredible 

is waiting to be known.

Pursue some path, 

however narrow and crooked, 

in which you can walk 

with love and reverence.

Quality is never an accident. 

It is always the result of intelligent effort.

The key to education 

is the experience of beauty.

Our dead are never dead to us, 

until we have forgotten them.

If there is a sense of reality, 

there must also be a sense of possibility.

What makes us human, I think, 

is an ability to ask questions, 

a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, 

and its power of endurance — 

the cheerful man will do more in the same time, 

will do it better, 

will preserve it longer, 

than the sad or sullen.