None but ourselves can free our minds.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

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

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

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

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Be curious, not judgmental.

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

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

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.

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

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

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