We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

Hariri says, in his Maqamat: ‘Safety is on the river’s BANK.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.

Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.

Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

I'm paid to make an idiot out of myself. Why do you do it for free?

When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.