The lie is a condition of life.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

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

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

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.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

All great achievements require time.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

There is an art, or rather a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.