Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

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

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

The lie is a condition of life.

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

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

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.