Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

I am not young enough to know everything.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Certain signs precede certain events.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.