When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact
Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.