Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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.
I think, therefore I am.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.