The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.

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.

Calligraphy of geeseagainst the sky-the moon seals it.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

We both (Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett) insist on a lot of time being available almost every day to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. We read and think.

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.

When I think of the people I've worked with, all of them have great passion, and the passion is what keeps people inspired.

It’s foolish to talk of an “Asian century” or an “emerging market century” because events move at a pace that renders this degree of durability obsolete.

I'm in the business where I can't ever say there's no risk associated with someone.

Meeting external deadlines is much harder than meeting internal ones. On the other hand, internal deadlines sometimes don't feel real, and are therefore easy to evade.

With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.

By the way, I love you.” “That’s why we're here.