"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."

"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self."

"I am always afraid of your 'something shall be done.'"

"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse."

"To teach well is to believe in what and whom you teach."

"Don't measure your wealth by how much money you have. Measure your wealth by how many things you have that you wouldn't take money for."

"If you are not critized, you may not be doing much."

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing."