How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.