Better be too credulous than too skeptical

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Keep a green tree alive in your heart, and a songbird may come to sing there.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.

Teachers open doors, but you must enter by yourself.

If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves.

He who is afraid of suffering, is already suffering fear. Out of fear, true creativity is blocked.

You have two lives the second one begins when you realize you only have one

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

Misfortune comes to all men.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

I already shred all my mail. What am I supposed to do now? Use pay phones? Smoke signals? Train pigeons? There's no such thing as privacy anymore.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Dolittle.

Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.

Because of Obama ... dreamers who are American in every way except on paper, no longer live under the shadow of deportation.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.