Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

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

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

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

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.