In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

There are no small steps in great affairs.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter; they are an entire banquet.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.