Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

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

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

A man is literally what he thinks.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

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

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

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.

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