In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

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.

Pent-up anger is oftentimes more destructive than a good quarrel.

Those who worry stumble long The Way.Those who pray have no time to stray.

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

What will you create that will make the world more awesome?

I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.

The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work.

Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Experience is a safe guide.