When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

A man is literally what he thinks.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.