Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

We kill everybody, my dear. Some with bullets, some with words, and everybody with our deeds. We drive people into their graves, and neither see it nor feel it.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

Life is too short as we all know it to be. So why dare to spend it trying to live up to other people's worldly expectations of you?

There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?

Don't save up love like you're trying to retire on it; give it away like you're made of it.

You need somebody you respect and admire to back you always.

There's no repentance in the grave.

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations.

Hong Kong is the bellwether. If the Chinese stick to their agreement to let Hong Kong go its own path, then China will also go that way. If they don't, that is a very bad sign. I'm optimistic.

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.

Every moment is a fresh new beginning... a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the Universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.