Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

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

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

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

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

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.