If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

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

All great achievements require time.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Take care of the pieces well. The whole will take care of itself.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

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

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.