Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

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.

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

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

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Criticize the act, not the person.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.