The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to live.

The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Action will remove the doubts that theory cannot solve.

Lean too much upon the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns.

If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.

Prudence is sometimes stretched too far, until it blocks the road of progress.

If the world knew how to use freedom without abusing it, tyranny would not exist.

The schools of the country are its future in miniature.

A road that does not lead to other roads always has to be retraced, unless the traveller chooses to rust at the end of it.

Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.

Dissociated, I follow this body in its reckless haste.

If I were to be honest, I'm probably fifty percent bagel. Okay, fine, sixty percent.

What cannot be avoided t'were childish weakness to lament or fear.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

Everybody wants to play his natural position and play every day, but in the world of professional sports that's not always possible.

When we think in the context of the last decade's infringements upon personal liberty and the last year's revelations, it's not about surveillance. It's about liberty.

For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.