An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Desire is the very essence of man.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

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

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.