To me success means effectiveness in the world, that i am able to carry my ideas and values into the world? that i am able to change it in positive ways

Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a fatalist.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

The source of wisdom is pain.

I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

I believe that we are fundamentally the same and have the same basic potential.