I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Never put off for tomorrow, what you can do today.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

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

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

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

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

The lie is a condition of life.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.