Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

Grown ups are certainly very strange.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.