“Know yourself. Be authentic. Have courage.”

“The questions you don't ask are just as important as you do. The questions you ask show what you understand, and ones you don't show what you know.”

“Words are free, action is not.”

“There is no better satisfaction than to see your children make your dreams theirs, and achieve them on their terms.”

“The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination.”

“Live in the present. It won't last too long.”

“Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and...”

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a success...”

“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”

“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- the...”

“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.”