A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

The lie is a condition of life.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Be curious, not judgmental.

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

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

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.