Believing that your parents are always right.

Only a fool makes threats, and only another fool feels threatened.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.

When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.