If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

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

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

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

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.