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

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

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.

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

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

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.

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

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

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

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

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

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

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