Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
I have no desire to make windows into mens souls
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more
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.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
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.
Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
