How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

A lie never lives to be old.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

You are like my little dog; when people see you, they know I am nearby.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.