The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

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

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

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

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