It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

Resist much. Obey little.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

A precedent embalms a principle.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

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

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.