Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!
Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!
An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!
You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden!
The most beautiful carpet is the carpet made of autumn leaves!
Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!
Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!
A man who sits under a tree and dreams makes more journey than a man who goes around the world without dreaming!
Midnight is another planet! When the clock strikes twelve and if you are asleep, wake up, friend, and discover the beauties of this new planet: Discover the silence; discover the tranquillity; speak to the owls, speak to the moon; greet the hedgehogs and disappear in the midst of the mists!
If you are afraid of the sunlight, you ain't a good man!
If you haven't admired anybody in your whole life, you are the best candidate to be the world's greatest megalomaniac!
Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds... Lonely trees are not lonely!
Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness... Without fires, man is just a cold rock!
The good may lose; the bad may win! Remember this! Because knowing this increases the chance of the good to win!
Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!
To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!
In nature, everything has a job. The job of the fog is to beautify further the existing beauties!
Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!
We can bear the sun not to set, but we cannot bear the sun not to rise!
Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!
If you don't like an idea, put another idea against it! If you use your fist against an idea that you don't like, you only prove how horribly primitive you are!
High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one.
Give food to the birds, you will then be surrounded by the wings of love, you will be encompassed by the joys of little silent hearts!
Days passing with discovery are the days of real happiness.
Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution!
