“Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.”
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Serve and thou shall be served.”
“Real strength is not just a condition of one’s muscle, but a tenderness in one’s spirit.”
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“The best things in life aren’t things.”
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.”
“The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.”
“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.”
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
“Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.”
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.”
“I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they’d never expect it.”
“Only when the last tree has withered, the last fish has been caught, and the last river has been poisoned, will you realize you cannot eat money.”