The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

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.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

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.