The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

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

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.