Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

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

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

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

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

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

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

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

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

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

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

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.