The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Appearances often are deceiving.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

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