Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

As long as it still hurts, it isn’t love yet.

In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries.

I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

You gotta learn how to think right before you can live right.

You dont have to live forever just live.

Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments.