Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

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

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Nothing is as easy as it looks.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.