I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

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

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

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

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Humility is attentive patience.

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

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

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

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.