As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

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

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

That which costs little is less valued.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

A jug fills drop by drop.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.