How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

I restore myself when I'm alone.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.