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

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

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

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.