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

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

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

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens