The end of labor is to gain leisure.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive position but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. 

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

Forget the past.

 A  language that does not evolve with time dies a natural death.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.