Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

If there's love in a house, it's a palace for sure.