There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.