I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

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

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

For we walk by faith, not by sight

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

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

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

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

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

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!