To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

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

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

Resist much. Obey little.