Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.