I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

I would get up at 6 in the morning, study until breakfast, then go to lectures, labs and libraries, and not spend more than 15 minutes unplanned all day. I would work until 9 o’clock at night and then go to sleep. I wouldn’t play games, I wouldn’t watch movies. I seldom went to concerts, hardly ever dated, and studied nothing but psychology and physiology.

If freedom is a requirement of human happiness, then all that is necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

The most ideal behavior is to completely eliminate the pressure to make people do what we want and to achieve the results we want by changing their environment.

We should teach a love of reading, not great books. Knowing the content of a few works of literature is an insignificant achievement. The tendency to keep reading is a great success.

Education is what remains after everything learned is forgotten.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

To learn is to be young, however old.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.