My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.