If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

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.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

A precedent embalms a principle.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

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.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.