Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.