Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
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.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.