Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Better beggar woman and single than Queen and married.
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Criticize the act, not the person.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.