If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

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

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

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

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.