No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

Perfection, my dear being, is what you are.Let not your mindobscure your view.Be still and be aware, right where you are, you cannot miss it.

A wrong path may take you to the right wisdom!

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Traditional thinking is all about "what is" Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.

The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.

We must, therefore, quit our roles as jailers and instead take care to prepare an environment in which we do as little as possible to exhaust the child with our surveillance and instruction

Future is an enemy territory; we cannot know what will happen to us over there!

A mother's job... is very much to hold back the coming of manhood.

The world is not divided into the strong who care and the weak who are cared for. We must each in turn care and be cared for, not just because it is good for us, but because it is the way things are.