You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

What can't be cured must be endured.

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.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

What's done can't be undone.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.