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.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

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

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.