The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

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

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

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

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

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

The only real laughter comes from despair.

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

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

A precedent embalms a principle.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

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

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