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

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

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.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look 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.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

A friend to all is a friend to none

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.