The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
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.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Every aquarium will eventually leak.
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.
When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.