It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me die still loving, and so, never die.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.

I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.

I love going into a country and just blending.

What is faith if it is not translated into action?

The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

Colours are what drive me most strongly.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it