If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Time wounds all heels.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

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

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.