What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

The polyglot is a linguistic nomad.

The people that surround us mirror who we are.

The darkest moments for me weren't necessarily winding up in the hospital or anything like that. It was those quiet moments alone when I just hated the person I had become.

What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.

Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.

There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.

The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?