One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.