Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

You are never too old to become younger!

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.