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

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

All great achievements require time.

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

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

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