I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.
If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
That which costs little is less valued.
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
His modesty amounts to deformity.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.