Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture and a mirror for us

Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is

Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.

The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.

I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.

I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.

Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.

I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right in the middle.