In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

One man with courage is a majority.

United we stand; divided we fall.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

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

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.