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

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

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

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.