Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.
I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.