Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.