It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

When you give people a choice, they believe they have power.

I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave

When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty.

In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.