As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

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

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

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

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

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