The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.