Where you stand depends on where you sit.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

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

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

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

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

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

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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

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.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

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.