It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

To See What Is Right And Not Do It Is A Lack Of Courage.

What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others.

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.

No Soul is identical – yet all Souls are unified.

I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life.

You make choices every day and almost every hour that keep you walking in the light or moving away toward darkness.

Writing has never been a driving force within me.

Italy cannot beat you but you can lose to Italy.

Missing your lunch is not exactly the end of the world.