Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

It is often said that a wrong decision taken at the right time is better than a right decision taken at the wrong time.

I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

Successful social media marketing is not built on impressions. It is built on relationships

No, that's not true. I didn't see his place that much, but he's a good kid and I had fun playing with him.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.