The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

A woman in her late sixties described her new iPhone: "it's like having a little time square in my pocketbook. All lights. All the people I could meet.

You are thirst and thirst is all I know

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies.

If you're creating a smile in yourself and also giving it to someone else, then you've started a dialogue. You also start to play.

Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...

Get over it. Get on with your life.