I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

The time is always right to do the right thing

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.