The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

What we love to do we find time to do.

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

Not all beaches are fun and sunscreen.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.

Rambo only exists in the movies.

Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?

Therefore, let me reiterate that the rate should not meet the interests of a specific group or one or two groups, it should meet the fundamental development interests of the economy itself.

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.