Michel Crouzet

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

"Power is not given to you. You have to take it."

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."

"The most important investment is in yourself."

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

"Technology is best when it brings people together."

"All politics is local."

"War is the continuation of politics by other means."

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine."

"The only escape from that exhausting race is deliberately to withdraw from it, to build a new life outside that which dominated me."

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

"You cannot protect yourself by love. If you really love, you open yourself to suffering."

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'"

"The family is the basic unit of society, and the foundation of all civilizations."

"Hope is a waking dream."