Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

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

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

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

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

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

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

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