Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

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

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.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

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

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

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

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence