If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.