“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you free.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Why do people give each other flowers? They're killing living creatures?

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.