"Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily."

"We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom."

"Determine to live life with flair and laughter."

"I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one."

"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it."

"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."

"A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."

"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."

"What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal."

"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking."

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions."

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."