We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

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!

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

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

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

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

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

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

The greatest power we have is the power of choice.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.