“Cultivate virtue in the world, and it will be universal.”

“Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.”

“If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.”

“When the student is ready the teacher will appear.”

“When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one.”

“The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.”

“Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.”

“In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.”