We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
What's done can't be undone.
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.
Be realistic: Plan for a miracle
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
