I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.
I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Be curious, not judgmental.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.