We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

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.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

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.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

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

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.