Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

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

Wisdom begins at the end.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

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.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Appearances often are deceiving.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.