How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

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

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool.

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.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

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?

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.