"If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing."

"I am the only truth I know."

"Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power."

"Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it."

"Truth is so difficult to find that, when one hears it, it shines through."

"To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well"

"An idea is a feat of association."

"As he thinks in his heart, so he is."

"In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known."

"A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man."

"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."

"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."