There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.