All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

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.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

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

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

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

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

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?