Studying, and striving for truth and beauty in general, is a sphere in which we are allowed to be children throughout life.

If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

Today also there is an urge toward social progress, toward tolerance and freedom of thought, toward a larger political unity… But the students at our universities have ceased as completely as their teachers to embody the hopes and ideals of the people.

The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

I do not ask how the wounded person feels. I myself become the wounded.

I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Just one smile immensely increases the beauty of the universe.

A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Look at flowers, butterflies, trees, and children with the eyes of compassion. Compassion will change your life and make it wonderful.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Not just beautiful, though – the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.

The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

No better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; no true beauty without the signature of these graces in the very countenance.

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the charm.

An ugly personality destroys a beautiful face.

All my successes have been built on my failures.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Anyone who attempts is not a failure.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

Make new mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before.

Failure is success in progress. 

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. 

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.