When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

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 man is literally what he thinks.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

Time wounds all heels.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.