There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.

He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

It's easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not, like thinking. And it's also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.

The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.