The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

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

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

The object of the superior man is truth.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.