In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Moonlight is sculpture.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.