You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

Include and grow. Include and expand.

A truce to idle phrases!

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

Remember, in the end, it isn't what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.

going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way

Not everyone will love you, and that's completely OK.

I always wanted to teach.

I think I always felt a connection to music and to movement. Growing up, I was surrounded by R&B and Hip-Hop, and the closest thing I could find to dance was gymnastics which I watched on TV.

Whathat!" Tyson gasped. "Those are the stables for the pegasi," I replied, "You know, winged horses?" "Whasthat!" "Um... those are the toilets.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.