"Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on."

"We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret."

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

"Wise men speak only of what they know"

"We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder"

"Leave no stone unturned."

"Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom."

"A WORD TO THE WISELet the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare.Remember, the only acceptable casefor being in any particular place is having no business there."

"Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children"

"Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end."

"Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger."

"The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized."

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it."

"The slave is not afflicted with a punishment greater than the hardening of the heart and being distant from Allah. For the Fire was created to melt the hardened heart. The most distant heart from Allah is the heart which is hardened. If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry."

"How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an 'active laziness'?It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues."

"A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us — not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature."

"A house divided cannot stand."

"Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them."

"For this is Wisdom; to love, to liveTo take what fate, or the Gods may give.To ask no question, to make no prayer,To kiss the lips and caress the hair,Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flowTo have, -to hold -and -in time, -let go!"

"it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom"

"Remember, purpose is about giving...All you can do with your life is to give it away in the service of others."