Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression