I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings, a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.

It isn't the ups and downs that make life difficult; it's the jerks.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...

You have to believe in yourself. That's the secret.

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

Judge a man not by how he treats his equals but by how he treats his inferiors.

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

More than machinery, we need humanity.

What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis!

I am for people. I can't help it.

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.