If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

A precedent embalms a principle.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent.

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

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

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.