Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.