Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.
Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
A man is literally what he thinks.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Time wounds all heels.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.