I am better than my reputation

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

You don’t need to travel far to make people happy. When you make people nearer to you happy, people farther away from you will surely come. Keep doing it!

Volumes are spoken when nothing is being said.

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.

I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me.(...) On the other hand, you're a human -you should understand self obsession.

European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

I think I'm as content as one can be.

The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.

No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'