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

If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

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

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

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

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

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

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

None but ourselves can free our minds.