“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

The highest result of education is imparting thoughts and ideals, not just knowledge.

The better part of one's life consists in his friendships.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart

Genius is the ability to see the world through the eyes of a child.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.